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Recently, after a monkey named ANDi was born carrying jellyfish genes, George Will predicted that genetic engineering would "end the human story" in a manner more swift and certain than nuclear war. Will's fear was not that genetic monsters or superviruses would destroy us, but that the genetic design of humans--the choice, before conception, to give a child certain traits--would eliminate our respect for human life. Will's concern, and that of many who agree with him, is not only that the consequences of genetic engineering may be harmful, but that the practice itself is a moral...
...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 an epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...
...June 1998 posting by Flame88610 on an anarchy message board. "First off, I have lost all hope that anyone belonging to the human race, including myself, is worthy of life, liberty or anything worth mentioning, other than extermination." Flame88610 then goes through a checklist of how to destroy the "United $tates of Amerikkka," including forming a terrorist band, acquiring "various weapons of mass destruction," the poisoning of the water supply, assassinations, bombings and, in an epilogue to apocalypse, turning the terrorists on themselves. Earlier, Flame88610 had asked about bombing "aquaducts [sic]...supplying water" to California's farmers. Would that bring...
...professor begins to discuss St. Augustine's Confessions, in which the great philosopher/priest pours his heart out Oprah-style, revealing all his sins and indiscretions to the readers (and God) in the hope of salvation. Among other things, the saint apparently thought about sex a lot and liked to destroy orchards...
...visit the retrospective of Sol LeWitt's paintings, sculpture and prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. It will dispel your doubts, without necessarily offering you lots in the way of superior pleasure. The Puritans, as descendants of the men who tried to destroy the whole legacy of English medieval art, exalted the Word and the Idea and distrusted the visual icon. It was blasphemy to represent the face of God, idolatry to gaze on any likeness of his saints and angels, loathsome vanity to employ the arts for sensuous gratification. Hence the legendary discomfort...